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This is part of Volume II of the CIA History Staff's official history of the Bay of Pigs operation, covering participation in the conduct of foreign policy, dated October 1979 and approved for release in 2011. The appendixes reproduce CIA and State Department cables on the November 1960 Guatemalan army revolt, including Guatemalan requests for arms, ammunition and air surveillance, memorandums on Special Forces trainers, and part of a 1971 oral history interview with Ambassador John J. Muccio. It contains no UFO material.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE UNCLjIFIED FROM: GUATEMALA COpy Control: 7268 NO: 225, NOVEMBER 14, 1 a.m. TO: SECRETARY OF STATE Reed: Nov 14, 1960 9 :50 a.m. PRIORITY PASS ARMY AND AIR FORCE EMBTEL 223 STILL ONLY CONFLICTING REPORTS AS TO NATURE MOVEMENT. FOREIGN MINISTER VISITED ME IN EXCITED STATE AT 8 P.M. AT BEHEST PRESIDENT SAYING HOPED US WOULD PREVENT SEA OR AIR- BORNE INVASION FROM CUBA AND "RSSIST IN CASE INVASION FROM NEIGHBORING COUNTRY. INSISTED UPRISING WAS CASTRO-INSPIRED AND THAT GOVERNMENT HAS LONG BEEN PREDICTING WOULD HAPPEN. SAID HE HAD JUST SENT STRONG TELEGRAMS INCRIMINATING CUBA TO OAS AND UN. ALSO SAIDPR AJ."lD MARIO MENDEZ MONTENEGRO \'VHO LEFT FOR US TWO DAYS AGO HEAVILY INVOLVED. SAID MEN- DEZ PLANNED RETURN TO ASSUME LEADERSHIP MOVEMENT IF SUCCESS- FUL. ACTUAL SITUATION LITTLE CHAJ."lGED. GAF HAS BEEN STRAFING BARRIOS AND ZACAPA ALL DAY AND LATE THIS AFTERNOON AIR- LIFTED 100 OR SO TROOPS TO CHIQUIMULA TO MOVE AGAINST ZACAPA TONIGHT OR TOMORROW MORNING. ELEMENTS OF MARISCAL ZAVALA IS REGIMENT REPORTEDLY ALSO ON WAY TO PORT AREA. GOVERNMENT PRONOUNCEMENTS HAVE VARIOUSLY BLAMED UPRISING ON COMMUNISTS (PGT) AND MENDEZ MONTENEGRO. MUCCIO Note: Passed OSD, Army, Navy, Air 11/14/60, CWO-JRL. -l::LUNCLAS~f ...... IED
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